In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction.

Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction

Be thou faithful unto death.

This is my sixth year now. I've never seen this many all-stars in the locker room at the same time.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to brag about it.